Favorite .22 LR rifle?

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I learned to shoot with my father's Browning BL-22 lever-action .22 rifle. He still has it despite my constant beggin for it. :) It's a fantastic little rifle. Very accurate, gorgeous wood and metal, smooth lever action, etc. They're very pricey for new ones these days so I'm sure it's got some value seeing as it's probably 30+ years old.
 
I'm going to go hi-tech on regolith's suggestion,

Stevens Model 87a.
Made around the same time as yours, the same way, but semiauto.
Best .22 i've ever shot hands down. Select fire between single shot and semiauto.
You can shoot then end of a soda can out at 100 yards.
But thats definitely my humble opinion.
 
Mossberg 46B

I sold it when I was struggling at school and have regretted selling it since. I have a Marlin 39m mountie that is a fun and accurate skwerl killi' machine...

Patty
 
FunderB, the PPS-50 was the sweetest, most fun rifle I have ever owned. I worked in a gun shop during college and it certainly was the prettiest girl at the dance. The Italian workmanship was very nice. My walnut stock was pretty. Not cheap birch. If they brought it back, I'd buy it. Here's a close up photo of the Pietta PPS-50 drum magazine.
 

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Winchester 63... but I don't own one :( My great uncle had one he used to hunt possum, but it went to the other side of the family when he passed. I bought a Taurus replica, but it's not the same.

Of the ones I do have, my T/C Classic .22 is probably my favorite. Accurate, reliable, fits me well, nice looking... what's not to like?
 
A .22 lr of Swiss K31 with barrel from Hämmerli. I friend of my has one and I shoot with it. Now try to get one here.
They have exactly size and weight of a K31 and shoot .22lr.
Quite hard to find but I've time...
 
Damn! I want that PPS ruski thing lookalike!

Up until now i was dreaming of an american180.
But this is way cooler!
(Does it convert o full auto by any chance?)

cheers from germany
Mp7
 
I own, and have owned several .22 rifles, but my all time favorite is a Winchester model 63. Although I really drool over the Browning and older Winchester lever guns.
 
My favorite .22 rifle is a Marlin model 60 that I've owned since new (28 years). It has taught all my kids to shoot and to this day is as acccurate as it was brand new. I couldn't even guess how many thousands of rounds have been shot through it. I have a Ruger 10/22 that is pretty nice, but it can't hold a candle to the Marlin 60.

My baby;
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Yes, Mp7, diesen PPS-50 gewher is sehr schoen. It had everything going for it. Looks, a military je ne sais quoi, accuracy, craftmanship. Sadly, they fetch up to $800 US and have become true collector's items when the intent was to create a line of nicely made "fun guns".

The original PPSh-41 changed the course of the Eastern Front. Whole tactics were developed around the crude, yet effective "burp gun".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPSh-41

The Pietta PPS-50 allowed the average gun owner to experience history without the expense and the preclusions of the U.S. National Firearms Act of 1934 (BATF paperwork notwithstanding). Of course, in Germany it's a whole other set of issues..

Some companies have altered the gun for full auto:

http://www.tacticalinc.com/pps50-p-372.html
 
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My favorite is my Marlin 60 like PAPACHUCK's. Mine was purchased for me by my Grandfather in 1970. I was 2 years old. Grandpa read an article that said rifles would start to be made with plastic stocks and wood will soon go away. He ran out and bought it for me so I would have a rifle with a wood stock.

I can take out an M&M at 50 yards with the iron sights.
 
My favorite 22LR gun is my Browning Buckmark rifle. It has the bull barrel with no open sights, scope only gun. Great balance and superb accuracy. The buckmark design is hard to beat in fit, form, and function.
 
Mossberg 46B
I sold it when I was struggling at school and have regretted selling it since. I have a Marlin 39m mountie that is a fun and accurate skwerl killi' machine...

Patty
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+1 Love my 46B
 
Tough call, but probably my Remington 541T. Have it set up with a Leupold Vari-X III 6.5-10X40 adjustable objective scope with fine cross hairs. Great at the range, great on squirrels.

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My CZ 513. I have a 452 and I shoot it better and it has a much better trigger, but the 513 goes where ever I go. Don't why I like it so much. Maybe because I got it before the 452.

Papachuk, I just got through fixing up a rifle identical to yours for a friend. Good shooting gun once we got the front sight tightened up a bit.
 
Impossible to say. Often the last one I bought which this month is a Winchester 60A mixmaster; nice barrel, possibly a model 59 bolt and an aftermarket stock. Since I haven't shot that one yet, I'll fall back on the model 61 acquired near the end of last year.
 
My favorite .22 lr used to be an Anschutz Super Match 54...until I bought a Volquartsen Superlite. Now I have pack-all-day field gun that thinks (and shoots like) it's a NCAA Smallbore Match rifle. I've been at this shooting game a l-o-n-g time (+40 years). I've never seen anything like it!
 
Favorite? Hard to say. My dad's Savage model 3 he got for Xmas 1930, or may Ruger 10-22 I got for xmas 1973. Maybe the 1950 vintage marlin 39a...
 
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